The Hive is (realy) Dead! Long Live the Hive Mind!
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The_Warlock
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Pretty much. I've got the IT part which I like a lot, and the rest of my job involves categorizing and coding verbatim survey responses, support writing, designing statistical weights, presentation creation, video editing for presentations of focus group results, and what not.
I also tend to be the quick and dirty handy man, 6'1" so I can reach, lift, and cart unlike the various folks with bad backs or who lack leverage due to height, and a pretty good with power tools, even if it needs to be jury rigged to succeed temporarily. Really, why pay someone extra when I can hang the projector screen in time for the Dalia Lama's streaming address froma local college...chuckle
I also tend to be the quick and dirty handy man, 6'1" so I can reach, lift, and cart unlike the various folks with bad backs or who lack leverage due to height, and a pretty good with power tools, even if it needs to be jury rigged to succeed temporarily. Really, why pay someone extra when I can hang the projector screen in time for the Dalia Lama's streaming address froma local college...chuckle
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The_One_Warlock said:
Sounds like you do lots of database and spreadsheet stuff, eh?
The_One_Warlock said:
Alas ... I tore myself up some time ago with a REALLY bad groin injury - hernia to the max. No lifting for the fungus.
Also, I'm short!
(5'7")We are so far off the beaten track that we couldn't stream anything, even if we wanted to.
The_Warlock
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Lots of spreadsheet work, and databases are fairly ubiquituous in the daily work flow, though I don't do as much with them directly, they are primarily the programmer's ballywick, while I have a number of front ends through which I edit/add to the data bases. Though playing the USPS Zip code database and MS MapPoint is primarily my schtick.
See, I'm lucky, most of my parts are in good working order, and I know most of my limits. The real key is, long before I'd likely pull a muscle or tear a tendon, my knees would hyperextend right out of the socket - a wonderful genetic benefit from my father. So I've popped knee joints about 14 times in my life - but I've never broken bones, torn muscles, and snapped tendons. That said, I can usually heft and move most of the office furniture by myself, or at least push/roll it without any assistance, while it takes two or three of my coworkers to complete the same tasks. Thus do I get the continued requests lift that hay and tote that bale....
See, I'm lucky, most of my parts are in good working order, and I know most of my limits. The real key is, long before I'd likely pull a muscle or tear a tendon, my knees would hyperextend right out of the socket - a wonderful genetic benefit from my father. So I've popped knee joints about 14 times in my life - but I've never broken bones, torn muscles, and snapped tendons. That said, I can usually heft and move most of the office furniture by myself, or at least push/roll it without any assistance, while it takes two or three of my coworkers to complete the same tasks. Thus do I get the continued requests lift that hay and tote that bale....
The_Warlock
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Mycanid said:Wow ... that's a convenient ... umm ... "feature")
Or, as Microsoft would phrase it, I have a "Sub-Optimal Knee-Socket Interface."
Though I learned about it the same way you learned you didn't have it. Stopping suddenly during a game of soccer in elementary school, I found that my right knee could bend forward under the right circumstances, all of them painful. It was then I was informed that my father had a form of tendonitis which allowed his right knee to do the same thing.
Later that year, I slipped on some ice, and found that my left knee could bend sideways (away from the center of gravity), thus discovering that my father had gifted me with all the bad knee genes...
The fun part, though, is that you can hear them creak when I go up stairs...
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